Finance

Publicis Groupe boss Maurice Levy says he wants 30 per cent of the company’s earnings to come from emerging markets like China and Brazil in the next few years and, to that end, intends “to make some acquisitions in China.” ...

There’s no holding Canada-based MDC Partners and the ambitious marcoms groups has followed its purchase of a minority stake in LA’s 72andSunny with a deal to buy 60 per cent of controversial integrated agency Anomaly, based in New York and ...

Is the pressure of competitive action and lower consumer spending starting to tell on John Lewis, previously the undisputed star of the UK retailer sector? buying glasses online Just two weeks ago it saw its sales drop for the first ...

One-time market-leading ISP AOL has been trying to reinvent itself as an online content provider since it split from Time Warner in 2009 and now CEO Tim Armstrong has bet the ranch on Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post, the ...

I was with some senior chaps from the ad world the other day and the discussion turned to the topic of management; the good, bad and downright ugly. The collective view was that getting a management role is a bit ...

According to the accepted wisdom British pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB has made its big investments in programme rights (particularly football), technology (HD and 3-D) and marketing (ten million customers) and all that’s left is for it to count the money. Which ...

Well if you look at this presentation for the launch of his new iPad paper The Daily you might come to that conclusion. Editor Jesse Angelo does a good job, clearly understanding all of it and then Rupe himself emerges ...

Amazon, which at one time was an online bookshop, seems to be taking on the world, taking aim at US film streaming market leader Netflix shortly after buying UK film rental outfit Lovefilm for £200m. Amazon is spreading its wings ...

We’re reading between the lines here of course but WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell and woman-about-everything-new-media Martha Lane Fox are advising the coalition government on its communications policy, in particular its desire to get more bang for its bucks (or, ...